{"id":6537,"date":"2017-02-26T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northdownhc.co.uk\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2017-02-27T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:37:21","slug":"kilkeel-comeback-fight-just-fails-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/26\/kilkeel-comeback-fight-just-fails-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkeel comeback fight just fails, apparently!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the gruesome Frankentwos, forged on WhatsApp and given life by a last minute Friday night Facebook APB.<\/p>\n<p>Take your standard common or garden 2s, remove 4 parts Saturday workers, 3 parts chocolatiers, 3 parts no-explanation-forthcoming unavailablers, add some vacationing man-with-a-fork-in-a-world-of-soup Bryn Walker, a sprinkling of timeshare twoser&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/benwillis88\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=649425260&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A15001456012%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Ben Willis<\/a>, a delightful sprig of debutant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mark.simpson.9400\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=598834542&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A15001456012%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Mark Simpson<\/a>, a pinch of mutually exclusive forwards and back from injury Wookie, the mighty kinesio-embalmed Stu-bacca, and you have a beast that shouldn\u2019t live but wants to live!<\/p>\n<p>4-0 down early in the 2nd half this mutant stitched together chimera bawled \u201cBeware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful\u201d and proceeded to claw it back to 4-4, and for 5 glorious minutes lead 5-4, much to the displeasure of the pitchfork, torch wielding local support only to concede twice in the last 10 to go down fighting 6-5.<\/p>\n<p>It was a soul suckin\u2019 nightmare pulling a team together this week, even with the help of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ross.linter\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=503144308&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A15001456012%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Ross Linter<\/a>\u2019s mentoring on the selection process (\u201cand so on\u201d etc.), but, boy, was it worth it. The Frankentwos put the \u201cclub\u201d in club today. Well done boys, we\u2019re too good to go down.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the guys who pitched in at the last minute, and to travelling umpire and ambulance driver Andy \u201cJudge Dredd\u201d Walls. He is, frankly, The Law.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s South Antrim next Friday, so get those hammys sorted, backs fixed, ankles set and significant others shipped off to spa days. It\u2019s a big one.<\/p>\n<p>Report from Stevie Magee.<\/p>\n<p>X ray courtesy of Peter Shields&#8217; left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the gruesome Frankentwos, forged on WhatsApp and given life by a last minute Friday night Facebook APB. Take your standard common or garden 2s, remove 4 parts Saturday workers, 3 parts chocolatiers, 3 parts no-explanation-forthcoming unavailablers, add some vacationing man-with-a-fork-in-a-world-of-soup Bryn Walker, a sprinkling of timeshare twoser&nbsp;Ben Willis, a delightful sprig of debutant&nbsp;Mark Simpson,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports","category-mens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}